Rockstar has updated their social channels again with the below image that all but confirms a new Red Dead game is coming from Rockstar.

Little else is known, as the image has been posted without any further information.

But this rules out the posibility of this being anything other than some sort of Red Dead update.

Whether that's a new game, a HD remaster, or the old Red Dead Redemption game coming to PS4, we don't know - but something is happening.

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Rockstar new Red Dead Redemption all but confirmed

Rockstar Games last night gave their biggest hint that Red Dead Redemption 2 is on its way when they added a new landing page to their website and changed their social media channels with a new Red design.

It started with a wordless tweet (above) sent by the Rockstar Twitter channel which featured a long image of the Rockstar logo on top of the mottled red texture used in art for Red Dead Redemption. Naturally, this has lead many to believe the announcement of a sequel is as good as here.

Right now, the GTA V studio's Twitter, Facebook, and official website all prominently feature a new Red Rockstar logo instead of its traditional black and yellow or white one.

However now a number of people on Reddit believe they might have discovered the games new title, having dived into the source code of Rockstar’s website in an attempt to data mine any secret information around the as unannounced project.

Some suggested they had found evidance in the websites code that pointed towards a new upcoming game titled Red Dead Retribution.

In fact it refers to a page previously visited on the site by the user, even when those pages return a 404.

For instance you can visit www.rockstargames.com/reddeadretibution before getting the 404

This has lead many to lable it a "false-positive" and not the 100 concrete proof of the next in the series.

It's also been highlighted that in the image doing the rounds (below) there's also reference to 'Red Dead Redemption 2', which would seem to also indicate that the user had first tried to access that URL before eventually trying Red Dead Retribution.

Despite the fake info, it isn't to say a new Red Dead Redemption isn't on the way.

Two years ago, Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two, said to a group of analysts that “it seems quite obvious that Red Dead is a permanent franchise,” implying Redemption wouldn’t be the end of the franchise.

And all signs would suggest this could be the start of another instalment in the series.

It was widely expected that a Red Dead Redemption sequel would be revealed with Sony at E3, but this Red Dead Redemption 2 Reveal alledgedly pulled due to a series of shootings in America around the time of the expo.

The popularity of Red Dead Redemption is still obvious, as when the title was made backwards compatible by Microsoft earlier this year, bringing the game once more to Xbox One, sales for Red Dead Redemption in the UK shot up 5911% in a matter of hours.

IGN reports that the last time Rockstar announced a new game - which was GTA 5 in 2011 - it used "a similar tactic", "saying very little initially and releasing a first trailer the week after."

However, the key difference here is obviously the lack of game logo or date to accompany the barage of new Red logo's that have been popping up.

It's equally possible that Rockstar could be preparing to announce a re-release. Either as a new HD title, or standalone on the PS4.

It's also worth remembering that very recently, Red Dead Revolver - the first game in the Red Dead series - was re-released on PS4 only last week.